Federal gun charge filed in Loyola student killing

U.S. job growth rebounded in March despite economic uncertainty tied to tariffs and the war with Iran.

Health care posted the biggest gains, adding 76,000 jobs, above its average monthly increase of 29,000 over the past year. The increase followed the end of a nursing strike on Feb. 24 that had taken more than 30,000 health care workers off payrolls.

Construction added 26,000 jobs in March. Transportation and warehousing added 21,000 jobs from the previous month, though the sector has lost 139,000 jobs since February 2025.

The federal government, the nation’s largest employer, cut 18,000 positions in March. That left federal employment down 355,000 jobs from a year earlier, as President Donald Trump continued a push to address “waste, fraud and abuse.”

Some economists said the March figures did not yet capture the full effects of the conflict.

JPMorgan economists wrote that “negative payroll readings in any given month will become more common,” adding that “even with job growth sufficient to stabilize the unemployment rate, there could be negative payroll readings at least a third of the time.”

The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment survey fell 6% in March to its lowest level since December 2025. The average price for a gallon of gasoline rose to $4.09 from $3.10 a month earlier, according to AAA, amid restricted traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.

Federal immigration authorities detained the president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque, alleging he concealed a past conviction involving attacks on Israeli targets and lied on his U.S. immigration application.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Salah Salem Sarsour, a leader of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, in a targeted operation earlier this week, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

In a statement released Thursday, DHS said Sarsour is a Jordanian national who was convicted in Israel of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the homes of Israeli armed forces and attempting to possess weapons and ammunition. The agency alleged he did not disclose that history on immigration forms and improperly obtained lawful permanent resident status in the United States.

According to ICE, Sarsour became a green card holder in 1998 during the Clinton administration after lying on his application. ICE told FOX 6 Milwaukee it worked with the U.S. Marshals Service to arrest him.

The Islamic Society of Milwaukee created a fundraising page to support Sarsour.

“Br. Salah is being targeted on the basis of his Palestinian and Muslim background, and his advocacy for Palestinian rights,” the fundraiser says, in part. “We know this fight for Br. Salah is part of a larger trend of attacks on immigrants that whittle away at democratic norms and legal protections for everyone. That is why this fight is a fight for all of us.”

Sarsour has been board president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, the state’s largest Islamic organization, for five years.

“He was targeted because of one thing, because he dared stand up to the Israeli army,” one of Sarsour’s attorneys, Othman Atta, told a crowd. “And he was not a U.S. citizen.”

“This appears to be just the latest example of how this administration seeks to silence opposition and intimidate those who speak and act differently,” said the Rev. Paul D. Erickson, bishop of the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

“He is a legal permanent resident. There is no substantive evidence he has done anything wrong,” Johnson said Thursday in a post on X. “This is another example of overreach and harm from the U.S. immigration authorities.”

Sarsour was being held at a county jail in Indiana. His attorneys filed a petition seeking his release.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

A New York judge dismissed 10 of Blake Lively’s 13 claims against Justin Baldoni, including her sexual harassment allegations, according to court documents.

The case will proceed to a jury trial on May 18 on Lively’s remaining claims of retaliation, breach of contract, and abetting retaliation.

The judge said Lively’s sexual harassment claims did not have the “substantial connection” to California required under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act. The judge also said the claims did not fall under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act because Lively was an independent contractor, not an employee.

On Lively’s allegations that Baldoni’s team carried out a smear campaign against her, the judge wrote that there is “some direct evidence that the plan to destroy Lively and her career was put into action.”

“… The parties fiercely dispute the extent to which the backlash against Lively was ‘organic’ or ‘artificial,’” the judge wrote, “and which steps the Wayfarer Parties may have taken to protect themselves (versus which ones they may have taken to destroy Lively personally and her career). A jury can and should decide those questions.”

Lively’s attorney, Sigrid McCawley, said in a statement to E! News that the case would continue.

“This case has always been and will remain focused on the devastating retaliation and the extraordinary steps the defendants took to destroy Blake Lively’s reputation because she stood up for safety on the set and that is the case that is going to trial,” McCawley said. “For Blake Lively, the greatest measure of justice is that the people and the playbook behind these coordinated digital attacks have been exposed and are already being held accountable by other women they’ve targeted.”

McCawley added, “She looks forward to testifying at trial and continuing to shine a light on this vicious form of online retaliation so that it becomes easier to detect and fight.”

Kendra Duggar said in jail calls that she no longer had custody of her four children after she and her husband, Joseph Duggar, were arrested in Arkansas.

In a March 23 call obtained by TMZ, Kendra, 27, cried and told Joseph not to trust anyone. In another call, she told him she had hired her own attorney and would not share that lawyer.

Kendra was arrested March 20 in Arkansas on four counts each of second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor and second-degree false imprisonment. Joseph faces the same eight charges.

A source close to the family told People that the arrests followed a home inspection and cited locks installed on the exterior of doors. A family spokesperson told the outlet the Arkansas charges were “totally unrelated” to Joseph’s Florida sex abuse case and said Kendra was not accused of participating in his alleged crime.

Joseph, 31, also faced charges in Florida of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under 12 and lewd and lascivious contact. Bay County Judge Brantley Clark ordered him held on $600,000 bond at a first appearance Tuesday. He posted bail later that day.

Clark ordered Joseph to have no contact with the alleged victim, including through a third party or social media, and no unsupervised contact with minors younger than 18.

Joseph, who appeared on TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,” was arrested March 18 in Arkansas after authorities interviewed a 14-year-old girl who said he had inappropriately touched her several times during a family vacation when she was 9.

Vanessa Trump posted a message of support for Tiger Woods on social media after his arrest last week in Florida.

“Love you,” Trump wrote on Instagram Stories over a photo of herself hugging Woods on a hammock. The image was the same one Woods shared on X in March 2025 when he announced their relationship.

“Love is in the air and life is better with you by my side! We look forward to our journey through life together,” Woods wrote at the time. “At this time we would appreciate privacy for all those close to our hearts.”

Woods’ arrest followed a rollover crash on Jupiter Island, Florida. The couple had been seen days earlier at the Golf League championship in Florida, where Woods competed. Trump’s daughter, Kai Trump, was also in the stands.

According to an arrest affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital, deputies with the Martin County Sheriff’s Office reported signs of impairment, writing that Woods was “sweating profusely” and that his movements appeared “lethargic and slow.”

After Woods performed field sobriety tests, deputies arrested him. During a search, law enforcement found “two white pills inside Woods’ left side pant pocket,” according to the affidavit. The document said the pills were identified as hydrocodone, a prescription opioid used for pain relief.

Before the field sobriety tests, Woods told officers he had undergone seven back surgeries and “over 20 operations on his leg.” He also said, “I take a few” prescription medications.

At the jail, Woods gave two breathalyzer samples, both showing 0.00. He declined to take a urine test, resulting in an additional charge.

Woods entered a not guilty plea earlier this week and said he would step away from golf to “seek treatment and focus on my health.”

President Donald Trump asked Congress to raise defense spending to $1.5 trillion in 2027, one of the largest such requests in decades, while cutting nondefense spending by 10%, according to a White House budget outline released Friday.

The summary said some responsibilities would shift to state and local governments. Trump earlier had said he wanted to increase military spending to modernize the armed forces for what he described as 21st-century threats.

“We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of day care,” Trump said at a private White House event Wednesday.

“It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare — all these individual things,” he said. “They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal.”

A president’s budget request outlines an administration’s priorities, but Congress controls federal spending and can reject the proposal.

The budget plan came as the federal government faced annual deficits of nearly $2 trillion and debt of more than $39 trillion. About two-thirds of the nation’s roughly $7 trillion in annual spending goes to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The rest has typically been divided more evenly between defense and domestic programs.

Trump’s tax cuts law, signed last year, already provided at least $150 billion for the Pentagon over several years and $170 billion for immigration and deportation operations at the Department of Homeland Security.

The budget document, prepared by Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, was intended to guide Congress as lawmakers drafted spending bills. Vought spoke with House Republicans on a private call Thursday.

The proposal arrived as the House and Senate remained at odds over current-year spending and Department of Homeland Security funding. Democrats sought changes to Trump’s immigration enforcement policies, which Republicans opposed.

Trump said Thursday he would sign an executive order to pay Homeland Security workers who had missed paychecks during the partial government shutdown, which had reached 49 days. Congressional Republicans said this week they had agreed on a path to fund the department, but lawmakers had not yet voted.